This digital textbook covers core earth science concepts and includes interactive features, real-world examples, videos, and study guides.

This interactive website explores the various soil layers and introduces you to the lifeforms that live in those soil layers.

Students explore how Earth processes shape the land, and how important managing the land can be in response to these natural activities.

This unit contains a series of lessons that allow students to explore the effect of sunlight on Earth's natural surfaces of sand, soil, rock, and water. In addition, students explore how the color and material of a surface affects how...

A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of soil and its importance to living things.

For this Grade Two performance task, students observe the contents of a terrarium and explain the purpose of the water, rocks and soil inside it.

This Pedrosphere site provides a twelve chapter overview of soil science. Numerous topics are discussed and each chapter has a self-test to test your knowledge on the different aspects of soil science. Some chapters are only previews.

Students simulate a sinkhole, and discover the geological catalysts that happen beofore sinkholes occur.

In this interactive tutorial, you will learn about the types of weathering and erosion that rocks and landforms undergo. This will lead to a discussion of soil and the types of soil. Lastly, you will learn about mass movements of soil,...

Learn about topics related to the material world. Each topic includes facts, a glossary, an interactive quiz, printable worksheets, an image bank, and web links.

Students build a model to learn about the cycle of erosion and deposition by water and wind which deposits layer upon layer of rock, soil, and organic material to the surface.

Interactive matching and multiple choice activities covering third grade Earth science vocabulary.

Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...

Learn about Kentucky's state symbols and their official state places and events. In most cases you can click on the word to see a picture and find more information about the symbol, place, or event.

Discover all of the Kentucky state symbols here, including a picture and the year of adoption.